Chris Christie to Hold News Conference Addressing Bridge Controversy

The George Washington Bridge toll booths are pictured in Fort Lee, New Jersey January 9, 2014.

Gov. Chris Christie will hold a news conference at 11 a.m. in Trenton where he is expected to address the controversy surrounding the closure of traffic lanes on the George Washington Bridge.

The event comes a day after emails were released showing that his deputy chief of staff, Bridget Anne Kelly, contacted an associate of Mr. Christie’s at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, David Wildstein, and ordered him to shut the lanes, which resulted in crippling traffic jams in Fort Lee, N.J. The closures were seen as political retribution against the Democratic mayor there, who refused to endorse Mr. Christie in his successful 2013 reelection bid.

The emails could have implications for Mr. Christie’s presidential ambitions.

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